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Family Lore
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Follows the lives of several generations of women in the Marte family after gathering to honor Flor, who can predict the day someone will die, decides to throw herself a huge party as a living wake.
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Isabel and the Rogue
by Liana De la Rosa
Sent to London to uncover British intelligence that might aid Mexico during the French Occupation, Isabel Luna Valdés meets her match in a rakish English captain, in the second novel of the series following Ana Maria and the Fox.
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The Witches of El Paso
by Luis Jaramillo
A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child. A riveting multigenerational tale of magic, sisterhood, and borders spanning centuries--from modern-day El Paso, to the 1940s, to 18th century colonial Mexico.
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Oye
by Melissa Mogollon
The baby of her large Colombian American family, Luciana, when her eccentric grandmother, Abue, moves into her bedroom, finds her wild demands, unpredictable antics and devastating secrets a welcome distraction, putting her on center stage, facing down adulthood—and rising to the occasion.
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An American Immigrant
by Johanna Rojas Vann
Twenty-five-year-old Melanie Carvajal, a hardworking but struggling journalist for a Miami newspaper, loves her Colombian mother but regularly ignores her phone calls, frustrated that she never quite takes the time to understand Melanie's life. When the opportunity arises for a big assignment that might save her flagging career, Melanie follows the story to the land of her mother's birth. She soon realizes Colombia has the potential to connect her, after all these years, to something she's long ignored:her heritage, the love of her mother, her family, and the richest parts of herself.
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The Book of Lost Saints
by Daniel José Older
Visited by an ancestral spirit who would have him unearth family secrets from the Cuban Revolution, a young Cuban-American embarks on an investigation marked by ghostly helpers, a new love, a murderous gangster and changes in his sense of identity.
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A Flower Traveled in my Blood
by Haley Cohen Gilliland
Amid Argentina's 1976 military dictatorship, a courageous group of grandmothers fight to reclaim stolen babies, uncover the fates of their disappeared children and seek justice against a regime that waged a brutal campaign of repression and secrecy.
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Our Migrant Souls : A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"
by Hâector Tobar
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, sharing his personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students, offers a spirited response to racist ideas about Latino people, investigating topics that include the U.S.-Mexico border“wall,” urban segregation and gangs.
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Solito : A Memoir
by Javier Zamora
A young poet reflects on his 3,000-mile journey from El Salvador to the United States when he was nine years old, during which he was faced with perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions during two life-altering months alongside a group of strangers who became an unexpected family.
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